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03/10/12 Gene Expression: A World of Dif f erence: Richard Ly nn Maps World Intelligence Front page Wednesday, February 01, 2006 Open Thread A World of Difference: Richard Lynn Maps World Contact Authors GNXP forum Intelligence posted by Jason Malloy @ 2/01/2006 07:12:00 PM Shortcuts: Discover GNXP Archives A review of Richard Lynn's Race Differences in Intelligence: Interview s An Evolutionary Analysis Blogroll (Click here for summary chart. Warning: 20 page review.) Principles of Population Genetics Genetics of Populations The generally listed "peak" age for scientific creativity and Molecular Evolution productivity is around the surprisingly young age range of 30-40, Quantitative Genetics but the same exact age doesn't apply to all scientific disciplines. Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics The peak in fields that demand greater doses of pure reasoning, Evolutionary Genetics such as mathematics, theoretical physics, and molecular Evolution biology, appears to be somewhere in the twenties. So, for Molecular Markers, Natural History, and Evolution instance, James Watson discovered the double helix at 25 and The Genetics of Human Populations Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits then dropped off the radar as anything but a nerd celebrity. In Epistasis and Evolutionary Process contrast are fields such as evolutionary biology, where years of Evolutionary Human Genetics collecting and assimilating large amounts of data can be required Biometry for original analysis. So, for example, Charles Darwin was 50 Mathematical Models in Biology years old when he published his landmark The Origin of Species, Speciation not to mention 62 for The Descent of Man and 63 for The Evolutionary Genetics: Case Studies and Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. What's true for Concepts Narrow Roads of Gene Land 1 evo-bio may also be true for the often belittled field of Narrow Roads of Gene Land 2 psychometrics, or the measurement and analysis of human Narrow Roads of Gene Land 3 intelligence, and for much the same reasons. So, to take some Statistical Methods in Molecular Evolution more obvious examples, we find that John B. Carroll published The History and Geography of Human Genes his seminal work, Human Cognitive Abilities, at the age of 77, Population Genetics and Microevolutionary while Arthur Jensen was similarly 75 when he published The g Theory Factor in 1998 (This spring, in fact, Jensen releases his treatise Population Genetics, Molecular Evolution, and the Neutral Theory on mental chronometry, Clocking the Mind, at 83). Genetical Theory of Natural Selection Evolution and the Genetics of Populations Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the Genetics and Origins of Species University of Ulster, is surely another example. Now 76, Lynn has Tempo and Mode in Evolution released a large number of papers and 5 books since his Causes of Evolution "retirement", 4 of them since 2001, starting with 1996's Evolution Dysgenics, 2001's follow-up Eugenics, 2001's The Science of The Great Human Diasporas Bones, Stones and Molecules Human Diversity, 2002's IQ & the Wealth of Nations, and now Natural Selection and Social Theory Race Differences in Intelligence. Richard Lynn appears to be a Journey of Man surprising exception as a modern hereditarian researcher who Mapping Human History has not had to fight an exasperating battle with his institution, but The Seven Daughters of Eve his reputation in the media has been characterized by much the Evolution for Everyone same turbulence as his colleagues' - most prominently during the Why Sex Matters Bell Curve backlash of the mid 1990s. Thus Leon Kamin's review Mother Nature Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language of the book in Scientific American included: Genome R.A. Fisher, the Life of a Scientist I will not mince words. Lynn's distortions and Sew all Wright and Evolutionary Biology Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics misrepresentations of the data constitute a truly venomous A Reason for Everything racism, combined with scandalous disregard for scientific The Ancestor's Tale www.gnxp.com/blog/2006/02/world-of -dif f erence-richard-ly nn-maps.php/ 1/26 03/10/12 Gene Expression: A World of Dif f erence: Richard Ly nn Maps World Intelligence objectivity. But to anybody familiar with Lynn's work and Dragon Bone Hill Endless Forms Most Beautiful background this comes as no surprise . It is a matter of The Selfish Gene shame and disgrace that two eminent social scientists . Adaptation and Natural Selection [would cite the work of] Richard Lynn . Nature via Nurture The Symbolic Species The Imitation Factor Similarly, New Republic senior editor Charles Lane used Richard The Red Queen Lynn as his launching pad for two jeremiads against The Bell Out of Thin Air Mutants Curve in the invidiously titled (and argued) Neo-Nazis! published Evolutionary Dynamics in The New Republic , and an expanded version of this article The Origin of Species which appeared in The New York Review of Books, titled The The Descent of Man Tainted Sources of The Bell Curve, featuring Lynn as the Age of Abundance eponymous "tainted source". While these and similar articles in The Darw in Wars the popular press may have helped solidify Lynn's reputation as a The Evolutionists "fringe" researcher among certain segments of the literate public, The Creationists Of Moths and Men his reputation as a scientist in differential psychology remains The Language Instinct secure and respectable. Little known, for instance, is the book How We Decide review of Richard Lynn's Dysgenics (about the genotypic decline Predictably Irrational of socially valued traits) by the late scientific legend William The Black Sw an Hamilton in the Annals of Human Genetics. This review is still Fooled By Randomness available free at the journal's website as a tribute, because it was Descartes' Baby actually Hamilton's last published piece, submitted just two Religion Explained In Gods We Trust weeks before his tragically premature death in 2000. In Darw in's Cathedral comparison to Kamin's recriminations, Hamilton had nothing but A Theory of Religion good words for Lynn's character and work, calling Dysgenics a The Meme Machine "brave and fertile book", and Lynn himself "brave, thick- Synaptic Self skinned, and very persistent to swim against. popular The Mating Mind antirealistic currents." and that "Lynn. does an excellent A Separate Creation job with the facts". The contrast between interchangeable The Number Sense The 10,000 Year Explosion talking heads rebuking Lynn as a crank in popular magazines The Math Gene with Hamilton, possibly the most eminent evolutionary theorist of Explaining Culture the 20th century, praising him in a prestigious journal at about Origin and Evolution of Cultures the same time, could hardly be more ironic. (Meanwhile it is Daw n of Human Culture actually Kamin himself who can most convincingly be charged The Origins of Virtue with data distortion and heavily compromised objectivity, see Prehistory of the Mind Mackintosh 1998 pp 78-79, 98-102) The Nurture Assumption The Moral Animal Born That Way Lynn's follow-up book Eugenics (about remedying the genotypic No Tw o Alike decline of socially valued traits) received similar praise in the Sociobiology American Psychological Association Review of Books (Lykken Survival of the Prettiest 2004) as "[an] excellent, scholarly book . .one cannot The Blank Slate reasonably disagree with him on any point unless one can The g Factor find an argument he has not already refuted.", as well as by The Origin Of The Mind Unto Others the journal Nature (Martin 2001) as a "comprehensive histor[y]" Defenders of the Truth and a welcome one, "given the importance of the topic" of The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition dysgenic trends. Lynn's third recent book, The Science of Before the Daw n Human Diversity, a hagiography of the Pioneer Fund, also Behavioral Genetics in the Postgenomic Era received supporting words in the APARoB from the psychologist The Essential Difference Ulric Neisser (2004), who was also chairman of the APA's Geography of Thought Taskforce on Intelligence (that was convened largely to counter The Classical World The Fall of the Roman Empire the proliferation of scientific misinformation against IQ in the Bell The Fall of Rome Curve aftermath). Despite Neisser's repeated ostentatious and History of Rome inappropriate insults against his hereditarian colleagues (such as How Rome Fell saying that Lynn and Rushton's work on race "turns [his] The Making of a Christian Aristoracy stomach"), he ultimately couldn't avoid agreeing with Lynn's main The Rise of Western Christendom argument: "Lynn's claim is exaggerated but not entirely Keepers of the Keys of Heaven without merit: "Over those 60 years, the research funded by A History of the Byzantine State and Society Europe After Rome Pioneer has helped change the face of social science"". The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity Neisser tellingly concludes in agreement with Lynn (and against The Barbarian Conversion William Tucker's Pioneer book, also reviewed) that the world was A History of Christianity actually better off having the Pioneer Fund: ". Lynn reminds God's War www.gnxp.com/blog/2006/02/world-of -dif f erence-richard-ly nn-maps.php/ 2/26 03/10/12 Gene Expression: A World of Dif f erence: Richard Ly nn Maps World Intelligence us that Pioneer has sometimes sponsored useful research - Infidels research that otherwise might not have been done at all. By Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople that reckoning, I would give it a weak plus" (These words The Sacred Chain Divided by the Faith coming from the APARoB should come as some news to certain Europe 'watchdog' outfits which are still attempting to anathemize this The Reformation same position. Pehaps all these journals and scientists Pursuit of Glory mentioned above should now be added to the list of 'hate Albion's Seed groups'?).